Today the children learnt about e-safety during our 'Safer Internet Day'. The day started with an assembly from Sergeant Gent, a parent and governor from the school. Children undertook a variety of activities during the day including colouring in their 'Smartie the Penguin' or 'Digi Duck' e-safety badges.

The school council plays an important role in the life of St John's. It it made up of two pupils from each class (a boy and a girl) who are elected to represent the children from their class at the council meetings. They meet regularly with Dr Cottrell in the staff room and have been involved with many of the recent projects in school.

This year the School Council has been considering designs for a quiet garden around the Friendship Bench. We hope that the project will be completed soon.

Last year we launched a whole-school times table challenge to encourage children to learn their multiplication facts by heart. This replaced the former times table challenge that resulted in bronze, silver and gold awards.

Children complete a 5 minute test, according to their ability. Once they have gained full marks on the test twice they move up to the next (more challenging) test, receiving a certificate in the process. The clubs progress as follows: doubles club, 25 club, 35 club, 45 club, 55 club, 75 club, fractions club and more difficult fractions club.

So, for example the 25 club contains 25 questions covering the 2x, 5x and 10x tables.

Here are some resources that may be helpful with learning times tables. Many further resources can be found on the Espresso website.

Times table resources:

At St John's, singing is a bit part of our school. From our exciting Singing Club, to a special project we are involved in with Bath Abbey, to our everyday singing in school and special events like our bedtime story evening, there is a lot of singing going on!

This page will be updated during the year, so check back for photos, videos and lots more!